Hi Guido, all,

last year, I wrote a patch that allows meta-types to have slots. You had no time to look into it, and I said "take your time and wait until it is stable".

I have been using this for quite a while now, and today I updated it for Python 2.3 . The patch is very small and simple. Essentially, it doesn't use a fixed offset into the internal etype structure, but computed this based upon tp_basicsize.

This small patch also gives lots of flexibility to people, who like to add extra stuff to their dynamic type objects. (Well, I do this frequently)

It would be nice if we could add this small feature, soon.

http://www.python.org/sf/696193

Due to some SF bug, I had to submit this patch twice.

thanks a lot - chris